Central defender Gary Cahill in confident Chelsea can cope without injured captain John Terry.
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Ghana defender Abdul had a decent game as his Chelsea team suffered a 2-1 defeat at the hands of PSG in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday night.Rahman who was handed a role at left-back lasted the entire 90 minutes of the game. Let’s wait and see on John but if he’s not fit to play in the huge matches coming up, I have played with Ivanovic in big games and it’s never been a problem.
‘Ideally we would have everyone available, all our strongest players.
“The atmosphere at Stamford Bridge is always massive for games like this and fans will make it loud again because they realise how big matches like these are for the club”.
“It was a decision made by me because he was having too much trouble to travel, even to try tomorrow, we had a test this morning and it didn’t work out well so the decision was made to leave him at home”, said Hiddink. “Hopefully the goal that puts us through in the tie”.
However, when hostilities resumed in the second-half, the Londoners tried to get the better of their hosts, by getting back the bal possession, but super-sub Edinson Cavani beat an off-side trap to make it 2-1 for his side in the 79th minute.
“I think it was about the next game and the next game”.
“We have to be more compact and more careful, because these small details can decide a game”. I’ve played with Ivanovic before, not often though. I think we put in a very good performance. Can defending Premier League champions Chelsea get us off to a good start tonight? One of those teams is Roma, who will be heavily outgunned against Real Madrid. We know what we need to do. This week, indeed this round, in the Champions League and FA Cup is a key week as to whether we go in a nice flow into the next round of the FA Cup, go further in the Champions League.
A lot has happened since Chelsea returned from Parc des Princes with a 1-1 draw that might have lulled them into thinking they were in a position of strength to go through to the last 16.
‘After the first goal we came back strong and got the equaliser’.
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“Maybe that changed the dynamics of the match a little bit, but we know that we can cause them problems and what we have to do in the second leg”.
